Gold Nanoparticles inside Bacterium (IMAGE)

University of California - Berkeley

Gold Nanoparticles inside Bacterium

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A single nanocluster of 22 gold atoms -- Au22 -- is only 1 nanometer in diameter, allowing it to easily slip through the bacterial cell wall.

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Peidong Yang, UC Berkeley

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